1st Edition

Freedom Bound II

By Marilyn Lake Copyright 1995
220 Pages
by Routledge

220 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Over generations, Australian women have envisaged a world of freedom. This new collection of documents - letters, songs, poetry, diary extracts - charts the visions that inspired women and the obstacles that confronted them. Exploring twentieth-century Australia, Freedom Bound II shows how intertwined were women's public and personal lives, and how bound by custom, ties, affections and duties.... Read more
Introduction

Acknowledgments

Part 1 Maternal citizenship, 1900-1920

Part 2 The modern desire for pleasure and freedom, 1921-1940

Part 3 Imagining equality, 1941-1968

Part 4 Liberation, 1969-1993

Index

Biography

Both Marilyn Lake and Katie Holmes teach in History and Women's Studies at La Trobe University, Melbourne. Lake's most recent work is Creating a Nation (1994) with Patricia Grimshaw, Ann McGrath and Marian Quartly. Holmes is author of Spaces in her Day (1995).